Article snippet: Rep. Eric Swalwell, a member of the divided House Intelligence Committee, wants the Republican chairman, Rep. “Powerhouse Politics” podcast Wednesday. Swalwell's call for Nunes to step aside comes after Nunes and the Republican staff on the committee released a controversial memo, declassified by President Carter Page, who authorities suspected at the time of being a Russian operative. Swalwell, who has represented a Northern California congressional district since 2013, called the decision by Nunes and the Republicans on the committee to release the memo “poisonous” to the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, adding that Democrats deserve to release their rebuttal memo in response to the GOP’s. “What the Republicans did was poisonous to the investigation and we think clearing it up with our rebuttal memo is the best antidote. Just to make sure point by point we rebut what they have asserted, to show the seriousness of the investigation,” Swalwell said, also pointing to the fact that the Democratic memo will undergo scrutiny from the DOJ and any information deemed too sensitive for release will be scrubbed as further evidence that it will not impact the investigation in a negative way. Swalwell did, however, caution against any redactions to the Democratic memo that are politically motivated, asserting that the Republican memo was released over objections from the highest levels of the FBI, specifically the agency’s direct... Link to the full article to read more